THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF BENTLEY UNIVERSITY SINCE 1963
THE VANGUARD VOLUME LVII ISSUE V
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2014
CAB holds annual Spring Comedy Show in Koum
Humorist Nick Offerman relays life-lessons in an unconventional way news editor
Last Saturday, February 22nd, Nick Offerman entertained two sold out crowds at Bentley University’s Spring Comedy Show in Koumantzelis Auditorium. Due to past popularity in the comedy shows, Bentley Campus Activities Board (CAB) decided to hold two performances, one at 7pm and one at 10pm. The 7pm performance was the fastest selling show the CAB Comedy committee has ever produced. Tickets went on sale the Tuesday before the show at 12pm and were sold out within two minutes. The speed at which the tickets sold was no surprise. Nick Offerman is one of the stars of the hit show Parks and Recreation, recently nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Television Series- Musical or Comedy.
This past summer Offerman also starred alongside Jennifer Aniston and Jason Sudeikis in We’re the Millers. An Illinois native, Offerman talked a lot throughout the show about his humble upbringing. The entire structure of his
performance was around ten of his life lessons. A self-proclaimed “humorist,” the comedian refused to refer to himself as an actual comedian. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a
Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1993. He went on to participate in several theater companies throughout Chicago before helping cofound the Defiant Theatre with a small group of his fellow college classmates. Thus, as Offerman explained,
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BY michaela stephenson
Nick Offerman, one of the stars of Parks and Recreation, paid Bentley a visit last Saturday.
he always saw himself as more of a theater person. In fact, Saturday’s 7pm show was his first stand-up comedy routine. He provided his ten tips to life, giving humorous anecdotes, both through spoken word and song. Some of his notable lessons included, have romantic love, mind your manners, have a hobby, and paddle your own canoe. He spoke frequently about his actress wife of over ten years, Megan Mullally, giving tips on a successful relationship. His lesson on minding manners was intertwined with dialogue on religion. Raised Catholic, Offerman took a keen interest at a young age to the verse “thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself,” and always believes in respecting others. Offerman continued his thoughts on religion, somewhat conservatively talking about certain verses SEE comedy, PAGE 6
BY zack o’malley campus life editor
On February 22, the 17th annual Bentley Business Bowl was held in the Executive Dining Room in LaCava. For those of us who disregard the e-mails and might not entirely understand what the Business Bowl is, here’s a quick synopsis. The Bentley Business Bowl is a oneday, campus-wide event where students of all levels compete in teams of five in a business case competition. In order to even the playing field, teams must be composed of students from the same class code, and compete solely with teams of the same designation. After composing their presentation, each team presents to a panel of judges composed of alumni and members of the professional community who deliberate to determine the best of each class code. Cash prizes are awarded to the first, second and third place teams within each bracket. As juniors and senior undergraduate students hold a distinct advantage in experience over those sophomores and
freshman competing, class codes 7-8 receive a slightly larger cash prize for each place. For example, this year $350 was awarded to the winning team from class code 7-8 with $250 going to first place from class code 5-6. $200 each went to the victors from the 3-4 and 1-2 divisions. The prizes descend in value as shown for second and third places as well; however, class code division 5-6 receives the same compensation as the freshmen and sophomores for second and third. This year’s corporate partners and sponsors of the event included Liberty Mutual Insurance, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and Homesite Home Insurance. Another cosponsor of the event this year was the student chapter of the National Association of Black Accountants (NABA). In addition to these sponsors, several valued donors contributed to the popular annual event including: Boston Scientific, Grant Thornton, Road Scholar, Staples and each of the “Big 4” accounting firms. The differences between being a partner, sponsor and
donor lie in the differing levels of financial backing required for each distinction. With a $500 minimum contribution, companies such as Boston Scientific were able to earn the distinction of being a donor to Business Bowl, and have their company name printed in the official event program. For a $2,500 donation, Blue Cross Blue Shield and Homesite were named sponsors of the event and had their logos featured prominently on all Business Bowl marketing materials and signage. Finally, having made a contribution of at least $5,000, Liberty Mutual was made the official partner of the event and had the unique opportunity of writing a business case to be addressed by the students themselves in the competition. An all-day event, the teams of students were presented with the business case in the morning, and were allowed to work on it for the following hours. The case itself is designed to require high-level, critical thinking of each team member, while at the same time drawing on their experience and learning from
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Bentley Business Bowl: An exciting case competition
Participants pose after winning first place for class code 3-4. their accounting, IT, ethics and general business (GB) classes. Each class division was given its own case, with the difficulties and varying based upon their current level of academic experience. The idea behind this was to have the case incorporate themes and material currently relevant to where students are at in their academic careers. In preparing their response to the case itself, students were permitted to make use of any of the available resources or tools
at their disposal on campus. However, in order to ensure their performance was entirely their own, teams were not permitted to solicit the help of other students or faculty. Each team was given a flash drive containing the relevant material to the case and was directed to return it to a classroom in Jennison once they finished. Upon doing this and completing the post-competition survey, each participating SEE bowl, PAGE 6
Fat Talk
Figure Skating
Bentley participated in a nation-wide campaign to end “fat talk.”
Figure skating hints on Sochi fixing.
Facebook acquired the messaging application for $19 billion.
CAMPUS LIFE 7
FEATURES 9
BUSINESS 10